Hannah Soyer
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New University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld’s appointment has been met with much resistance from faculty, students, and community members, and with good reason....
Three years ago, I purchased a subscription to National Geographic, thus becoming a member of National Geographic Society. My first issue was the photography issue from that year, with the cover being...
Growing impatience with legislatures, universitiesÂ
I have spent my entire professional career as a faculty member at colleges and universities — for more than 40 years at the University of Iowa...
This week, a video of sophomore members in the University of Iowa Alpha Phi sorority chapter was uploaded and quickly went viral. It features a large group of women chanting lyrics ranging from drinking...
Joe Lane
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Dear Mr. Harreld,
I want to apologize. I want to apologize for the behavior of the select few individuals at your Question and Answer session that treated you with such...
A ‘vote of confidence’ for incoming President J. Bruce Harreld  Â
   A group of independent university business professionals would like to officially welcome President J. Bruce Harreld to...
Jacob Prall
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Years of civil war have yielded millions of refugees from Syria, desperately searching for food, water, shelter, and a better life. The rise of ISIS has seen a rise...
If all speech is political speech, then politicians’ speech must be some sort of reactionary enigma. Sensationalized quotes by Donald Trump may have broken the news cycle in McCarthy-esque fashion, but...
Sydney Newton
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It seems everyone has heard of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and many have heard he’s a democratic socialist. What exactly is a socialist? The Merriam-Webster...
Paul Osgerby
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Here in the United States, we love to spotlight flip-floppers. Scott Walker on undocumented immigrant paths to citizenship, Jeb Bush on (re)invading Iraq, and Marco...
Demanding transparency from the Board of Regents
     The discontent within the UI community is widespread. A chorus of voices have called into question the Board of Regents’ practices during...
Drug use increased in the United States throughout the 1980s and ’90s. In response, Congress enacted increasingly elaborate and harsh legislation. The objective was to curb drug use and create safer...
